Just Label It, News Roundup 1-19

GMO trials pose a danger to the country’s second-biggest agricultural export commodity, bananas. While questions persist about the safety of GMO ingredients, they are widely used without distinguishing labels, and now one of the United States’ most popular snack food companies has been busted for misleading the buying public over the use of GMOs in its so-called “natural” products. Also this week, questions arose about Monsanto profiting off of farmers’ dicamba woes. By mid-October, state departments of agriculture nationwide had received 2,708 complaints from soybean farmers who claimed their fields had been damaged by wayward dicamba drift. And France is starting to reap the benefits of a recent law that forces supermarkets to make use of unused food, rather than throwing it away. Food waste is a huge, and expensive, global issue. France is way ahead of other countries, including the U.S. Lastly, it turns out eating organically is not just good for your health and the planet’s health ­– but also for your waistline. A new study has found that eating organic can actually prevent weight gain.

While questions persist about the safety of GMO ingredients, they are widely used without distinguishing labels, and now one of the United States’ most popular snack food companies has been busted for misleading the buying public over the use of GMOs in its so-called “natural” products.